Let's see, I spent most of my adult life in the Watchtower, and what do I have to show for it? Not a single person from all those years, and I mean not one, will even talk to me. Members of my own immediate family shun me. My wife views me as, at the least, a spiritual danger to her and the children, and at the worst, an enemy to be combated at every turn. I am thirty eight years old, with no life long friends, the prospect of a failed marriage after eighteen years, no real education beyond high school, and not a dime saved for a retirement I was sure would never come.
I don't mean to sound ungrateful for the blessings I do enjoy, but those blessings are inspite of the Watchtower's influence. It is a dangerous cult, that I wish I had never come in contact with. I only wish I would have left twenty years ago. It would have saved me a lot of pain.